Article

?
MPLS.TV is officially on a tear. In addition to unleashing this week's videos of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. partying it up at Lee's Liquor Lounge and Gayngs and Glasser rehearsing for their tour at Justin Vernon's recording studio, the crew me...

Article

?
The Thermals and Cymbals Eat Guitars
September 30, 2010
Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis
It was a fun night to be at the Triple Rock on Thursday, as
both the Thermals and Cymbals Eat Guitars delivered enjoyable,
satisfying sets to a responsi...

Article

?
When we first hear that low stiff clang of flesh across four heavy strings, immediately we know - it's slap bass. And once our ears have recognized that distinctive sound, our mind promptly tells us, it must be Primus.
Les Claypool, the ...

Article

?
Music festivals are an odd thing, and College Music Journal's annual New York buzzathon is absolutely no exception. Well over a thousand bands play officially and unofficially during its four days, attempting to attract some of the game-ch...

Article

?
"Freedom-loving American" and the country's most famous skivvy-clad busker the Naked Cowboy has announced his 2012 bid for the Presidency.
Before you laugh, note the rapid and unexpected rise of the Tea Party as I point out that the Naked Cowboy ...

Article

?
Still buzzing from their packed EP-release show earlier this month in the Entry, Estate just dropped a video for their EP's title track, "Nuclear City." (Read our review of the EP here.)
As we've written about before
in matters concern...

Article

?
The Dessa-curated Cadence hip-hop series at the Guthrie will pick up again on October 28 with P.O.S. As with the series of shows Dessa hosted in the same location back in May, her evening with P.O.S should be an intimate and unique experience, part...

Article

?
Local Natives are like a fine German automobile; their musical success has gone from 0 to 60 without so much as blinking an eye.
Turning up the majority of their success at last year's SXSW, the Los Angeles natives did what every emerging band at...

Article

?
Let's not get it twisted.
Bon Iver's "Woods" is an amazing, mesmerizing song, a sort of Daft-Punk-gone-acapella existentialist mediation on loneliness and self-doubt that deftly exploits repetition and Autotune to make a gothic, isolati...

Article

?
When Naked Raygun was born in 1981, one can only assume the Chicago punks never intended to be releasing records in 2010. Now spanning four decades, the band's career has seen its members change and its sound develop from early hardcore to...

Article

?
Bone is returning, semi-triumphantly (they've had a tough decade, after all) to the Mainroom tonight with the "original lineup" in tow -- not including Bizzy, the high-pitched attack dog of the Lord, who has been a solo artist since 1998.....

Article

?
This Saturday, two separate and ever-evolving bands with two entirely separate interpretations of indie folk will come together for a dual CD-release show at First Avenue. In honor of this huge show, we sat down with members of both Dark Dark Dark ...

Article

?
In anticipation of their upcoming production of Unspeakable Things, a play based on the lives of eccentric St. Paul natives Donald and Howard Wandrei, the Sandbox Theatre has unveiled an online album of six songs penned by local artists ju...

Article

?
As we told you about yesterday, MPLS.TV had a special opportunity to hang with Gayngs as they prepared for their tour this week, and we're excited to present a bonus edition of our City of Music series today. The band departs from Eau Claire today ...

Article

Apparently, Barack Obama is a huge fan of Bob Dylan.
In a Q & A featured in the Oct. 15 issue of Rolling Stone, Obama tells magazine co-founder Jann Wenner that Dylan is a perennial on the presidential iPod. That is, of course, when he's not listen...

Article

?
Klaxons are currently touring behind their new record, Taking the Void, and -- I'm sorry, before we go any further, can we take a moment to enjoy the poetic and stunning album art that the band has bestowed on us all? It's a cat astronaut....

Article

?
Twin Cities-based conglomeration Gayngs is preparing to embark on their first tour this week, which will find them in New York City this weekend for a pair of shows and an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and wraps up at the Austin City ...

Article

?
At the risk of becoming band breakup central around here, we have more sad news to impart this morning. Local dance-rock sextet Military Special has decided to dissolve, and will perform their 100th and final show at the 7th St. Entry on N...

Article

?
Sea Wolf (solo acoustic)
September 27, 2010
Turf Club, St. Paul
Monday doesn't necessarily seem like a night to go out and party (from a responsible standpoint anyway), but Sea Wolf isn't really a party band, either, so that dovetailed nicely.
A...

Article

?
Caribou
September 27, 2010
First Avenue, Minneapolis
Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith brought a tight three-piece backing
band along with him to First Avenue on Monday night, and they proceeded
to light up the Mainroom with their liquid, hypnotic g...